Change in meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones at a tertiary care hospital in the United Arab Emirates over a 5-year period

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 178-182

  Sonnevend, Ágnes ^a   Blair, Iain ^a   Alkaabi, Mohammed ^b   Jumaa, Pauline ^c   Haj, Mohammed Al ^a   Ghazawi, Akela ^a   Akawi, Nadia ^a   Jouhar, Fatima Saeed ^a   Hamadeh, Mohammad Baraa ^b   Pál, Tibor ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b TAWAM HOSPITAL   (United Arab Emirates)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOXIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROTOXINS; EXFOLIATINS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 84856097523     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2011-200436     Document Type: Article

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